Introduction to Macbeth

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What does the word "anomalous" mean?

• Normal and expected

• Deviating from what is standard or expected

• Related to ghosts

• Associated with kindness

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• "On the other hand, numerous human behaviors seem ___________ from the evolutionary point of view."

• brusque

• anomalous

• aspersion

• bizarre

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(n). freedom from control; independence

• evidently

• autonomy

• transcend

• resonance

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Young people, tired of being controlled by parents, teachers, and others, often have a strong impulse to gain ___________________.

• amnesty

• precepts

• caveats

• autonomy

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abrupt, blunt, with no formalities

• bizarre

• immutable

• brusque

• ennui

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His disrespectful and​

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manner left a lot to be desired in a salesperson!

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The prisoners ____________ a way to escape.

• disabused

• contrived

• castigated

• cajoled

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Choose the word related to the image.

• contrive

• platitude

• venerate

• sanctimonious

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to free from deception or error

• immutable
• transmute
• disabuse
• sinecure

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Before discussing the jury verdict, let me ________the world of the notion that our clients started this confrontation.

• castigate

• cajole

• disabuse

• contrive

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fair; just

• equitable
• scathing
• salutary
• vapid

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Arriving at ___________________ arrangements in human affairs often requires sound judgment, as well as good intentions.

• transients

• salutary

• equitable

• autonomous

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To free from a constraint or difficulty

• extricate

• compelled

• appalled

• incredulous

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Having a steady income finally ___________d the homeless man from living in the park; he saved up and started renting a mobile home.

• straitlaced

• salutary

• axiomatic

• extricate

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intercede

• to give in

• to plead for

• to examine

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She will __________________ in the dispute between the two children, and soon they will be playing happily again.

• transcend

• intercede

• assuage

• expostulate

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Passing away quickly; short lived

• Transient

• Transcendent

• Peremptory

• Superfluous

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Although the pain may seem _______________ after tearing your ACL, the rehabilitation process is lengthy and consistently painful.

• transient

• straitlaced

• soporific

• autonomy

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performed, suffered, or experienced by one person in place of another

• aspersion

• vicarious

• castigate

• fetter

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As my daughter was crowned the winner of the beauty pageant, I felt _______excitement coursing through my veins.

• vicarious

• optimum

• scrupulous

• gregarious

Match

Match the following

• unusual

• independent

• crabby; mean; rude

• unbiased and reasonable

• by proxy

Anomalous

Autonomous

Brusque

Equitable

Vicarious

• Anomalous

• Autonomous

• Brusque

• Equitable

• Vicarious

Match

Match the following

• to devise or concoct

• to correct a person's thinking

• to untangle

• to intervene

• fleeting

Contrive

Disabuse

Extricate

Intercede

Transient

• Contrive

• Disabuse

• Extricate

• Intercede

• Transient